diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6fef1b7..2ee0d66 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   * Switch to dpkg-source v3
   * Wrap and sort fields in various files
   * Sync desktop file to the menu file
+  * Switch to debhelper compat 9 and dh rules.tiny
 
  -- Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:18:32 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
index 7ed6ff8..ec63514 100644
--- a/debian/compat
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5
+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index de8edae..93af27e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  Sam Hocevar <sho@debian.org>,
  Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@sapo.pt>,
  Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
 Build-Depends-Indep: autotools-dev, libsdl-perl
 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
 Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/pangzero/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ae33dd5..7f478e0 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,86 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-
-# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-#export DH_VERBOSE=1
-
-# These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
-# from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
-DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
-DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
-
-CFLAGS = -Wall -g
-
-ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
-	CFLAGS += -O0
-else
-	CFLAGS += -O2
-endif
-
-config.status: configure
-	dh_testdir
-
-ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""
-	cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
-endif
-ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" ""
-	cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
-endif
-	./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
-		--prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info \
-		--bindir=\$${prefix}/games --datadir=\$${prefix}/share/games \
-		CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs"
-
-build: build-stamp
-
-build-stamp:  config.status
-	dh_testdir
-	$(MAKE)
-	#docbook-to-man debian/pangzero.sgml > pangzero.1
-	touch $@
-
-clean:
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	rm -f build-stamp 
-	[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
-	-rm -f config.sub config.guess config.log config.status
-
-	dh_clean 
-
-install: build
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_clean -k 
-	dh_installdirs
-	$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/pangzero install
-	dh_installdirs usr/share/pixmaps
-	dh_install debian/pangzero.xpm usr/share/pixmaps
-	dh_installdirs usr/share/applications
-	dh_install debian/pangzero.desktop usr/share/applications
-
-# Build architecture-independent files here.
-binary-indep: build install
-	dh_testdir
-	dh_testroot
-	dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog
-	dh_installdocs
-	dh_installexamples
-#	dh_install
-	dh_installmenu
-	dh_installinfo
-	dh_installman debian/pangzero.6
-	dh_link
-	dh_strip
-	dh_compress
-	dh_fixperms
-	dh_perl
-	dh_installdeb
-	dh_gencontrol
-	dh_md5sums
-	dh_builddeb
-
-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch: build install
-
-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install 
+%:
+	dh $@ --parallel